How Do You Know When Your Cat Is Going To Give Birth?

Normally when they're ready they find a place to settle, and sleep quite a lot.When she's about due her stomach will drop and her nipples will become enlarged.Keep an eye out for when she starts licking her back end very often.When her labour begins she will pant heavily, just make sure you have her food and water bowls next to her.

Look out for her licking her genitals and her tummy dropping down , and her nipples getting bigger, watch where she goes to see if she has found a place to hide, this is where she will probably give birth just make sure she doesn't go outside when showing these symptoms as she may give birth to kittens outdoors which wouldn't be healthy for the kittens.

When my cat was about to give birth she went somewhere to hide so no one would interrupt her

Well my cat is pregnant right now so usually they will lick they're back and down and her nipples will get big,this is a sign of milk being made by your cats body.

My cat pants a lot and she sleeps all the time so these are some sign of her giving birth really soon

My cats is sleeping alot and lying on her side and she goes into my dogs kennel and sleep, i also see rippling along her stomach and her nipples are pink when and she cant jump very high, when will she give birth???? Please tell me i am worried

My cat just gave birth it takes 63 days for gestation. She will lick her privates and she will not come for breakfast if you feed her in the morning . The day she doesnt come she is having her kittens

Well my cat is licking her private parts and meowing allot , she cant get comfortable she also puts her leg up allot , her nipples are enlarged and she is very very cudely ,

She will poop alot and cry and hiss. :)

Well my cat is under the bed giving birth right now and earlier she was meowing like mad... She didn't lick alot... Just meowed and paced (trying to find the right spot to have them it seemed). When she started meowing i felt the sides of her belly and could feel her having contractions... So keep feeling for that :)

Well, my cat Jojo is in her little box sleeping. But i am actually afraid of her giving birth because in her last pregnancy, she sufficated one of them, but i am sure when your cat us ready, she will meow a lot and she will nag you, like she will be around you all the time.

Days before, my cat seemed restless and very affectionate, purring all the time. She also had diarrhea, but other than those small changes, nothing. She wasn't lactating noticeably until she gave birth and she wasn't nesting until 24 hours before. I think it took kittens suckling for her milk to really start coming out. Maybe this is true because it is her first litter? I've heard of it before as well.

As far as contractions go, I could see them about 12 hours before she gave birth. She kept moving and would look at me with an uncomfortable face, and I'd see her whole body tense up. That, I knew, was a contraction. They were hours apart at first, and then the next morning as I was watching the birth of the last two kittens, the contractions were 10-15 minutes apart, then a couple minutes, then seconds.

The only way I knew for sure she was having her babies though, was that her water broke where she wanted to nest. She loves this book case in this end table of mine, and even though I had started using it for actual book storage [I thought for sure she would have them in a quieter spot], she pushed past the books and her water had broken behind them. I heard her scratching the wood [not hard enough to damage it of course], trying to cover it up like she would in her litter box. I didn't smell any urine odors, so I knew she must have broken her water. So I removed the books and brought her nesting box into that small nook, brought her food and water in there, and closed her in. Very early the next morning, while the rest of the family slept downstairs, she gave birth to 3 out of her 5 kittens. And I got to witness the birth of the other two.

She really wanted me there, she let me touch her kittens, and I pet her and comforted her throughout. BUT she was raised from two weeks of age as an indoor cat, and I've always been her mother, so our situation would be different from a stray raised as feral, or a feral cat turned domestic. The instincts would be different.

Hi my cat give birth to a litter of 4 last night she is doing really well looking after her babies  and eating and drinking well.  But i'm a bit worried she keeps following me around crying when i give her some love she is fine and she then goes back to her babies she has been for a wee but not a poo yet.Have i got anything to be worried about?

No.. Well not yet. If she doesnt poo within a week ask your vet. If she does shes fine. Mine did the same.

In my experience, she will start meowing quite often and start looking for an out of the way place to give birth. Mine always wanted to be in the closet out of sight. After birthing each kitten she will clean it. It may take several hours for her to deliver the whole litter. The momma cat will eat the afterbirth when she is through with delivery.

My cat, Cola, is currently under my duvet on my bed, next to me, she is laying on her side and meows every time she wants a bit of attention, and I think she is enjoying me singing to her. I ran out of things to talk to her about, so I'm singing Nightwish instead. She seems to be a little calmer.

She is staying in her box but i dont no when and if her water has broke but i can tell she is very uncomforable